Kakuei Tanaka

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Kakuei Tanaka ( Tanaka Kakuei ; May 4th 1918 - December 6th 1993) was the Prime Minister for the Japan between 1972 and 1974.

It was born in the Préfecture from Niigata. Determined to leave its family misery, he emigrated with Tōkyō at the seventeen years age in the Années 1930. While working, it passed a certain number of technical patents which gave him competences in engineering of the building. It could be made appreciate of the president of Kenkyu which became its guard and entrusted to him its first contracts of design of factory. Sent in Mandchourie in 1937, it was reformed after having contracted a Pneumonie. This interruption in its career really did not slow down it. It successfully developed its own company out of building during the war, as project superintendent for the construction of arms factory. It could repatriate money an important sum of Korea at the time of the defeat, summons intended for the origin with the transplantation of an arms factory. After the defeat, it accepted contracts on behalf of the American army.

Richard Nixon and Tanaka met the August 31st and on September 1st 1972 in the State of Hawaii to mention the commercial problems.

He was condemned the October 12th 1983 to four years of prison, to have accepted a bribe of two million dollars on behalf of Lockheed.

Makiko Tanaka, his/her daughter, also launched out in the policy and became Foreign Minister.

This character, near to the popular classes (it practically did not make studies), is the most popular politician of Japan, even after his death, according to recent investigations. Contractor with success energetic and jovial, but sometimes imprudent, it explodes in the Japanese political scene made up mainly old unobtrusive and not very charismatic senior officials trained with the university of State de Tōkyō or resulting from the best private universities.

Throughout its political career, it knew to make benefit in a remarkable way its area of origin from the appropriations intended for the infrastructures and the prevention of natural disasters. The committee Echizan (Echizan-kai) which federated its important political customers was the support group best organized country, in which the gangster drifts could not always be avoided, in particular during attributions of public orders.

There remains a character enimagtic, equipped with a capacity of work and synthesis out of the commun run which was worth the nickname to him, amongst other things, of “Bulldozer equipped with a Ordinateur”. Regarded by its partisans a visionary and its enemies as a megalomaniac, he is undoubtedly the key character to include/understand the Japanese policy of the post-war period until our days.

See too

Prime Ministers of Japan
History of Political Japan
of Japan

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